In the face of Weiss's questioning, the Norman officer did not intend to admit it, but during the exchange of eyes, his eyes were avoided. ~With ~dream~small~ said~щ~suimеng~lā this avoidance, I had to say helplessly: "Okay, okay, this was originally a secret that shouldn't be leaked, but it won't be counted after tonight...... We were riding in a glide without an engine, and you must have seen it. ”

"Gliders?" Weiss was slightly surprised. The appearance of gliders is obviously earlier than airplanes, and the federal army has been equipped with biplanes capable of strafing and carrying bombs in batches, and the Normans are certainly not too much to use gliders, but the Norman army, which is good at tactical strategy, is difficult enough to deal with, and one more effective combat equipment means that N tactical routines can be added, so this is definitely bad news. However, people are the source of tactical strategy, not equipment. Thinking of this, Weiss did not continue to inquire about the glider, but asked in Norman, which was poorly pronounced and grammatically poor, "Here, yes, yours, the goal, huh?" ”

The Norman officer did not deny this.

Weiss asked, "How, you, find, here?" ”

Although the Norman officer was not firm enough, he was not a fool either, and weighing the pros and cons, he closed his eyes and said, "Come on!" Shoot! The safety of countless companions is at stake, and I'd rather die than divulge this secret! ”

Weiss snorted: "Radio direction finding." ”

The Norman officer snapped open his eyes, and then, realizing that he had been fooled, gritted his teeth and grimaced.

Sure enough......

At this time, Weiss actually missed Major Brooks of the Military Intelligence Department a little, whether it was interrogation or clichés, he was much more familiar with the road than himself. That guy who hasn't heard from him for a long time should be busy all day long in this time of war, right?

"Call the Corps Command, the Normans are following the signals of the radio station, tell them to use the radio carefully, and it is better to remain silent for the time being." Weiss said to the staff officer.

The staff officer was a little surprised, but immediately complied.

Weiss wanted to ask a lot of questions, but he continued to interrogate, first, because there was not enough time and not enough words, so he had to ask the soldiers to take the Norman officer down.

By the time the staff officer called him again, Weiss's attention had been on the operational map for a moment.

"General Kaysen wants to talk to you." The staff officer said, holding the microphone.

Weiss hurried to the field telephone, and he noticed that there was a radio receiver here—it only had the function of receiving radio codes, and could not send radio signals to the outside world.

There is no transmitter, and there is no way to disguise itself as a command to disrupt the enemy's judgment......

On the phone, General Casen praised Weiss without hesitation, knowing that in the eyes of ordinary people, it would be very good to be able to withstand the enemy's attack with a half-crippled field battalion, and he actually made a beautiful counterattack, killing and wounding hundreds of Norman soldiers at the cost of less than 100 men, temporarily eliminating the worries of the corps headquarters on this side. By any measure, it was a very beautiful fight.

"I heard that you interrogated a Norman officer who had just been captured, and you learned a lot?" General Kaysen's side changed gear.

"As you know, I learned some Norman language in the Norman army and could only communicate relatively simply, so ...... A little intimidation was used, and a little useful information was found about radio direction finding, which I had spoken to you before, and now I am almost certain that they were tracking the radio signals. Weissdau.

The voice on the phone said: "The headquarters has been fortified in the new station, and there are not many troops, but it is enough to deal with an attack of ordinary scale." My idea is to organize a defense here and wait for an opportunity to fight back, as you suggested earlier. As for you and the field camp, I don't have any ideas for the time being, so, listen to your opinion! ”

Weiss looked at his watch: "It's going to be dawn soon." If the enemy does not have many troops on this front, the counterattack should be launched as soon as possible, but I am afraid that Stidhoven is the main direction of the Normans' attack this time, in which case what we can do is to delay the enemy's attack as slowly as possible, wait for reinforcements to arrive, or organize the troops to retreat in an orderly manner. ”

"You say that Stihofen is the enemy's active direction, what clues did you find from Norman prisoners of war?" General Kaysen asked.

"Yes, he said that they used gliders, which were airplanes that did not have engines and flew aerodynamically, not very far, but they were easy to build, and they could fly quietly over the line of defense, and they could be carried by a transport ship to the vicinity of the line of defense. According to normal logic, the appearance of this new equipment should be a very important military operation, so as to disrupt the deployment of the opponent by surprise. So ......"

"No wonder......," murmured General Kayson.

"What did you say?"

"Ahem, that's right, there have been reports of the discovery of several enemy leftover aircraft, they are large, they have no engines, and there are seats in the cockpit, which looks like they can accommodate seven or eight adults. At that time, I thought it was strange, the flying transport ship can deliver hundreds or thousands of soldiers at a time, and this kind of flying machine can only carry a few people, what are the Normans planning to use the star source stones of the transport ship for the warship? It seems that my thoughts have deviated in the right direction. ”

Weiss paused: "General, I have come up with a strategy that can interfere with the enemy's judgment and induce them to reveal their flaws. ”

"You say, I'm listening." The voice on the other end of the phone responded in a deep tone.

Weiss then expressed his assumption: "Since the enemy's radio monitoring equipment has been listening to our communication channels, we will create a false signal source for them, so that they will think that our corps headquarters has been moved to the rear, and that our troops at the front are retreating on all fronts. At the same time, we are trying to convey the real operational deployment to all units and catch the enemy by surprise. ”

"How sure is this kind of adventure in the absence of an unknown enemy?" General Kaysen put the words "unknown enemy situation" very seriously, and then he asked: "At present, we can contact less than half of the troops by telephone, and if we do not use radio, we will have to send signal troops, and we all know that this method is neither efficient nor safe, so we ......."

General Kaisen's concerns, as well as Weiss's, responded: "Yes, General, as you say, this idea is not yet ripe. ”

"What we can do right now is to hold on, hold on, and then fight back." On the other end of the phone, Kayson sped up his speech, "That's it! You and the field battalion are still to consolidate the defense on the spot, to act as an outpost for the headquarters, and if possible, to send a few reconnaissance detachments out to liaise and gather our troops as much as possible. ”

Defending and scouting were both Weiss's better jobs, and when there was no better way, he took on the task.

A short time later, Lieutenant Myers arrived, and Weiss instructed him to count the men, weapons, and ammunition of the 1st Field Battalion. Immediately afterwards, Lieutenant Norma of the Alert Company also came, but he did not come to follow the dispatch. After resuming contact with the Corps Headquarters, he received instructions to lead his troops back to the communications battalion.

"Take care, acting captain Clumber Hazen." Before parting, Lieutenant Norma sent his blessings, but this was not the point, the point was that he handed over the two field guns left by the artillery battalion of the guard regiment to the 1st Field Battalion, and revealed that the artillery battalion had a temporary ammunition depot here, various machine guns and field artillery shells, which should be enough for the field battalion to cope with a few more battles.

Weiss thanked Lieutenant Norma and said, "If you meet Major Hozersen, please greet him on my behalf, and by the way, tell him that I am in dire need of experienced field scouts here, and I beg for assistance." ”

After Lieutenant Norma left, Weiss began to patrol the defense area and adjust his deployment. The position left by the alert company was managed by the 2nd field battalion, the position of the 2nd company was shared by the 3rd and 4th companies, and the 1st company drew half of its troops to serve as a reserve. According to Lieutenant Myers' count, there were still 609 combatants in the field battalion, including 17 officers and 29 non-commissioned officers, and a quarter of those 609 were slightly wounded. In addition, there are 162 wounded who have lost their combat effectiveness, they have been treated on the battlefield and need to be sent to the field hospital, but the road to the rear is not smooth, and there is a lack of transport vehicles, and these personnel are still stranded in the defense area, as long as the battle situation does not deteriorate, there will not be much problem for the time being, but if the defense area falls, their fate can be in the hands of the enemy.

The day was soon bright, but the hustle and bustle was not over. The sound of gunfire in some directions was temporarily stopped, and in others the sound of gunfire explosions broke out. Weiss stood in the trench, looking around. As far as the eye can see, there are quite a few remains of the dead, Normans, Union troops, as well as automobiles, horse-drawn gun trucks, cooking carts, and all kinds of abandoned equipment, which shows that last night's battle was chaotic and fierce.

In this battle, the Normans were in the north and the Union army was in the south. The 1st Field Camp was attacked by Norman troops in both the western and northern directions, and Weiss asked the companies to strengthen their defenses, placing all the barbed wire and mines they could find in front of the position. To the southwest of the defense area, the position of the former 793rd Garrison Regiment can be seen in the distance. Due to the smoke of the war, it became a variegated area of black and yellow. There were still a number of charred chariots left in the positions there, and it seemed that the armored battalion of the Guards Regiment had lost a lot of strength from the assault last night. Senior Mustegan, who is full of ambition, seems to have kicked an iron plate......

After a while, the roar of airplanes was heard in the sky, and Weiss looked up, hundreds of white-painted planes flew from the south and north like a flock of migrating geese. Only then did he realize that the flying warships of both sides had disappeared. Could it be that the two fleets fought for hundreds of rounds last night, and in the end it was a tragic battle in which both sides were defeated?

The two fleets withdrew together, and the result was that the combat planes of the Federation Army were able to dominate the sky, diving at high altitudes, grazing the ground at low altitudes, dropping bombs, strafing, rampage, and unscrupulous. The anti-aircraft firepower of the Norman army was always ineffective against these small and agile fighters.

This overwhelming wave of air raids, not to mention how many casualties were inflicted on the Normans, at least suppressed them fiercely in terms of momentum, and gave the beleaguered federal army a new hope for the dawn.